Business Insider's Social Reader Is Out!

Today, we released BI's social reader. It allows you to share
Business Insider articles you read with
your Facebook friends -- it's a quick and easy
way to let the people you know, know what you're interested in.
There's no need to shuttle back and forth between our site and
Facebook to post a link: stories can be shared automatically.

To enable the social reader, click the "Login" link in the
upper-right corner of the site.

You'll be prompted for your username and password.

If you've already got an account at Business Insider, enter your
username and password. (If you've previously connected your BI
account to Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn, you'll notice those buttons are gray.
This means you've already signed in using those services).

Click On to enable
sharing. You can control which articles are shared by clicking
"Activity." Click Off to disable all sharing on
Facebook.

If you have a BI account but haven't connected it to Facebook,
now's the time to do it! Click "Connect with Facebook" and enter
the information requested. Now, you'll be able to automatically
share the articles you've read on our site. You'll see this
widget as you navigate around businessinsider.com. By default,
you won't be sharing articles on Facebook. If you want to share
the articles you've read on BI, change the switch marked "Social"
from Off to On.

In order to use BI's social reader, you have to have signed
in to Facebook (on their website) recently.

Privacy and Settings

There are lots of ways to control what (and if) you share with
the social reader. Here are a few:

After reading an article, you'll see a notification at the
bottom of the screen: "This article has been shared on Facebook.
Undo?" If you click "Undo", the article will be removed from your
Facebook activity stream.

You can turn off these notifications and still share your
activity on Facebook. To turn off notifications, click "Options"
your Facebook widget, and set notifications to "Off". Now, after
reading a story, you'll won't see the message asking if you
want to undo sharing.

Note that not every article you click on is added to your
activity stream. If you click on a story -- and immediately
afterwards, click "Back" in your browser -- we assume that's not
a story you've actually read and intended to share. You need to
spend a few seconds on the article before it show up in your
activity stream.

You can remove any story from your activity stream by
clicking "Your Activity" in the Facebook Widget and clicking the
"x" next to the story you want removed.

Removing stories from your activity
stream is easy.

Finally, Facebook itself offers lots of nuanced privacy
controls. To use them, head to facebook.com, log in, and click
the gear icon in the upper-right corner. From that menu, you'll
be able to change your account and privacy settings -- what you
share, who you share it with, etc.

No matter how you use the social reader, Business Insider will
remain free to use. You'll never be required to log in to read
stories on our site.